Vulcanization accelerator



Patented Dec. 8, 1942 STTES "rear orric VULCANIZA'TION ACCELERATOR No Drawing. Original application June 22, 1939,

Divided and this application May 9, 1940, Serial No. 334,173

Serial No. 280,444.

3 Claims.

This invention relates to a new class of com.- pounds which have been found valuable as accelerators of the vulcanization of rubber.

This case is a division of my copending application Serial No. 280,444, filed June 22, 1939.

The new class of rubber vulcanization accelerators are the reaction products of 1-mercapto aryl thiazoles with monochloramine, preferably with an aqueous solution containing the monochloramine. The reaction is carried out at temperatures between and 100 C. and preferably between 0 and C. The resulting products may be called arylene thiazyl sulfamines, and are believed to have the general formula where R is an arylene group.

The following examples are given to illustrate the invention:

EXAMPLE 1 rial is then filtered ofi and Washed with water.

The White material is then dried. Melting point is 126127 C. (uncorrected). Benzothiazyl sulfamine is obtained in a yield of 88-89 grams.

Analysis Theory Obtained Nitrogen l5. 4 14. 83 Sulfur 35. 2 34. 8

EXAMPLE 2 16.7 grams (0.1 mole) of l-mercaptobenzothiazole is dissolved in approximately 300 cc. of concentrated ammonium hydroxide (4.6 moles ammonia) and then cooled to O-5 C. by means of an ice-water bath. To this is then slowly added a cold aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite (1.5 moles) of approximately 125 cc. volume. Some water is added (125 cc.) to facilitate 1 iii) easy and rapid stirring, during this addition. Upon the complete addition of the sodium hypochlorite solution, stirring is continued for about five minutes whereupon'the White material is then filtered off and washed with water. The material is then dried. Melting point of crude material is 121-122" C., crystallized from-benzene melting point is 128-129 C. Benzothiazyl sulfamine is obtained in the yield of 17-175 grams.

In Example 2 the monochloramine is formed by the action of the hypochlorite on the ammonia in solution and this in turn reacts with the ammonium salt of the mercaptobenzothiazole which in turn is formed when the mercaptobenzothiazole is dissolved in the concentrated ammonium hydroxide.

Other hypochlorites may be used including those of potassium, lithium, calcium, etc. Other metal thiazyl mercaptides may be reacted with the monochloramine including those of sodium, potassium, calcium, barium, etc. It is also to be understood that other mercaptoaryl thiazoles may be used including those of the naphthalene and anthracene series, substituted or not in the aryl nucleus by a radical such as chloro, nitro, hydroxy, alkoxy, amino, etc.

The following data illustrates the usefulness of the materials as accelerators of vulcanization; the parts are by weight:

Recipe Pale crepe 100 Zinc oxide 10 Lithopone 40 Whiting, Suprex clay 25 Zinc soap of cocoanut oil acids 1 Sulfur p 3 Master batch 229 Benzothiazyl sulfamine 0.625

Tensiles Cure in minutes at 30 lbs/sq. in. T E

steam pressure T=ultimate tensiles in pounds per square inch.

E=percent elongation at break.

If desired, the new accelerators may be used with any of the Well-known basic nitrogen-containing accelerators used in activating the accelerators of mercapto thiazole type accelerators, including the guanidine and substituted guanidine salts, such as diphenyl guanidine salt of aliphatic, and of aromatic acids.

The term rubber herein is to be understood as including caoutchouc and similar vulcanizable gums, natural or synthetic, including latices thereof.

The present invention is not limited to the specific examples above set forth wherein the preferred accelerator is employed. Other ratios of the compounding ingredients than those mentioned in the examples as well as other well known fillers, pigments and the like may be employed in the production of various types of rubber compounds as will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. A method of producing compounds having the probable general formula where AR is an arylene group, which comprises reacting an aqueous solution of a salt of a mercapto-aryl-thiazole in the cold with chloramine having the formula NHzCl.

2. A method of producing compounds having the probable general formula AR O-S-NH:

CSNHl which comprises reacting an alkaline solution of mercapto-benzo-thiazole at a temperature between 0 C. and about 10 C., with chloramine having the formula NHzCl.

ROY S. HANSLICK. 

